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The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus: Gehenna, Hades, the Abyss, the Outer Darkness Where There Is Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth is unavailable, but you can change that!

The topic of hell has held a strange fascination for believers through the centuries, becoming the subject of paintings, sermons, books, articles, and much more. For many it has been a source of terror, for most a wellspring of questions. Is there such a thing as hell? How long will it last? Who will go there? Is hell fair? In this study, Kim Papaioannou tackles the topic at its most...

brook. In contrast to the oracles of doom in Jeremiah 7 and 19, this reference forms part of a prophecy of salvation (31:23–40).19 God will receive the people of Israel and Judah back (31:27–34), Jerusalem will be rebuilt (31:38), and the “valley of the dead bodies and ashes” together with the rest of the land surrounding Jerusalem will become “sacred to the LORD” (31:40). The Sitz im Leben of these three texts is not difficult to imagine. Ahaz and Manasseh reigned towards the closing years of the
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